“I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works. — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about. — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline. — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I am not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or that his influence in scientific and public thinking has been beneficial ...… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who… — Constance Naden Copy Share Image
The US reasserted control over Nicaragua in 1990. Since then, the country has experienced a steep decline. It's now the second poorest… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
President Obama flew to China a few days ago and announced a joint environmental pact with the communist regime. The United States… — Erick Erickson Copy Share Image
“The “music of decline” had sounded, as in that wonderful Chinese fable; like a thrumming bass on the organ its reverberations faded… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers… — Fritz Machlup Copy Share Image
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When you look at the whole explosion of the Internet, the decline of print journalism, there are all of these plus-or-minus ramifications,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their… — Kenneth Bacon Copy Share Image
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
…shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
